I’ve had a long (and possibly excessive) interest in how to generate PDF files programmatically. There aren’t too many options in this space – paged rendering is a pretty hard thing to do well. The state of the art methods today need either a full TeX distribution, or a full Chromium distribution, b…

Can it convert html files into epub format also? EPUB format works better in E-readers/ kindle etc.

Isn’t EPUB essentially just html (with images and css zipped up)? In general, EPUB is a reflowable content, not paged content. There are quite a lot of tools that convert from markdown or html to epub. For use from within Julia, Pandoc.jl is one option . Plutobook.jl is for converting from html to …

[image] avik: Isn’t EPUB essentially just html (with images and css zipped up)? I could not get good EPUB file for latest Julia documentation. [image] Documentation Formats - epub mobi pdf General Usage Why is not EPUB format of Julia documentation avail…

Interesting. The name is quite bit puzzling, as one would expect this package to be able to generate well formatted pdfs from Pluto.jl files. But as the name comes from the plutobook C++ project, it appears to be legitimate. I think this should be explained in the readme (I contemplate a PR on th…

[image] avik: I’ve had a long (and possibly excessive) interest in how to generate PDF files programmatically. There aren’t too many options in this space – paged rendering is a pretty hard thing to do well. The Typstry.jl Julia Typst wrapper probably deserves a mention here - much more light…

Pandoc.jl wraps the Swiss Army Knife of format converters.

[image] avik: [PS: IMO the best method of generating high quality pdfs dynamically is a Java library, but that’s a conversation for some other time and place :smiley: ] But now I want to know what your thoughts are on this as someone also obsessed with dynamically preparing documents…

Thanks a lot for this package! I created two issues .

[quote=“j-fu, post:5, topic:132641”] I think this should be explained in the readme (I contemplate a PR on this). [/quote] This is mentioned in a note at the end of the package readme. [image] oschulz: The Typstry.jl Julia Typst wrapper probably deserves a mention here Yes, indeed. Ther…

Yes, indeed. There is also Tectonic.jl Thanks, I didn’t know that one yet.

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I could not get good EPUB file for latest Julia documentation.

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